— Bobby Roode defeated Mike Kanellis in the dark match before SmackDown went live on the USA Network on Tuesday night in Oakland, California at the Oracle Arena. This was the same dark match that took place before last week’s SmackDown TV event.

— Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer had this Twitter exchange on Tuesday afternoon after Dreamer mentioned that he was trying to book an old venue that the original ECW used to run for an upcoming House of Hardcore event:

I just called an OLD ECW venueI asked if they were interested in a wrestling eventThey said wrestling is banned since ECW@HeymanHustle

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